Rajesh Fowkar [Sat Jan 05, 2002 at 12:09:30AM +0000]: > Hi, > > Today I wanted to burn a multi-session CD. I tried the following to burn > the first session (first iso image) : > > cdrecord -vv -eject -pad dev=0,0,0 speed=8 -multi -data <iso image name>
So far so good, but as they say all good things have to end :-( > > Than I wanted to append a session(another iso image) : Did you use the -msinfo flag with cdrecord ? (actually this step is somewhat superfluous). Also, for the second iso, it must be in a nested folder. Do take a look at README.multi, though it is somewhat archaic. > Again the same command with the second iso image. This time however it > showed track 2 being written. Since it is a data CD the track should have > remained as 1 for multisession CD's isn't it ? OK. It burnt that track 2 > and fixated. However when I mounted the CD only the first session files > were present the second session files were not there at all. I had similar problems, working with cdrecord on the console, though I could actually see the new tracks if I looked in xcdroast. Even the latest version of xcdroast or gcombust do not support multisession CDs. There is a program called KonCD which is supposed to be able to burn multisession CDs, but it requires KDE 2.2 atleast. > Has anybody successfully created a multi-session CD under Linux. Than I > tried the same CD on Windows and tried burning it with WinonCD. WinonCD > treid to retrieve the existing session, however during retrieving the > second session it threw some error. Thus even in windows I was unable to > burn anything on that CD. One CD-R wasted. > > After I tried the same stuff on a CD-RW and the same thing happened. But > when I burnt with WinonCD it burnt on the same CD two sessions and > everything is present now on this new multi-session CD burnt using WinonCD. > One thing I noticed is while burning second session too WinonCD shows it as > track1 which is correct. > > I thing Dr. Shahrukh was trying out this stuff. Doc, what is the status ? > Were you successful in doing it or we have to depened on Windos for > creating multi-session CD's ??? Short answer, No. I rtfm'd like I have never rtfm'd before because multisession CDs is the only feature that was remaining in my full-time use of linux. I went to Jorg Schilling's site. Read thru it back to front. I even wrote to him but as I said in my earlier mail, he replied with a one liner which went somewhat like this -- "You have hit a kernal bug, I cannot help you". Seems he had some disagreement over the inclusion of drivers other than those written by him in the 2.4.x kernel. He refuses to modify his code in cdrecord, so it seems you can forget multisession CDs in linux, atleast under a 2.4.x kernel. But Rajesh if you are running woody, why don't you try it under the 2.2.19 kernel that comes with woody? Let us know if that works. It will be an added incentive for me to take the final leap into debian. What I do know is that Doc Nagarjun at HBCSE from lug-bom said he could burn multisession CDs merely by using the -multi flag. I aslo know he runs debian. I will ask him and revert. regards, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Mumbai, India. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
